flamboyant

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   elaborately or excessively ornamented

   Flamboyant handwriting.

Simplified etymology

Flamboyant, recorded from the mid-19th century, ultimately belongs to the same “blaze” or “flame” word family as Latin flagrare. It was originally a term for a style of architecture.

Borrowed from French flamboyant (“flaming, wavy”), participle of flamboyer (“to flame”), from Old French flamboier, from flambe (“flame”). The architectural style derives its name from the flame-like shapes in the tracery.

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